Macedonian Greek Coins For Sale

The Ancient Macedonians had populated the more southerly portions of Macedon since pre-Classical times. The first Macedonian state emerged in the 8th or early 7th century BC under the Argead Dynasty, when the Macedonians are said to have migrated to the region from further west. Their first king is recorded as Perdiccas I.

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City Coinage 'Athena and Horse' AE18 015877

Rare City Coinage 'Athena and Horse' AE18
Bronze, 6.30 grams, 18.23 mm. Thessalonica, Macedonia. pre-Imperial Times. Obverse: no legend, head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet. Reverse: QES-SALONIKWN, horse pacing right. Mionnet I, 318; cf Moushmov 6603; cf BMC 40; Sear -. Fine. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

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City Coinage 'Athena and Horse' AE18 015877


Amphipolis

The Macedonian city of Amphipolis was founded by the Athenians in 436 BC to protect their mining interests in the north. Amphipolis surrendered to the Spartan general Brasides in 424 BC. The city preserved its independence until 357 BC when it was captured by Philip II, King of Macedon.
Macedonia 'Satyr Kidnapping Nymph' AR Stater 019570

Extremely Rare Macedonia 'Satyr Kidnapping Nymph' AR Stater
Silver, 11.47 grams, 25.23 mm. Lete or unknown city in Macedonia. Circa 500 BC. Obverse: WIAN (end of city name, retrograde), Satyr with horse's feet and tail, running right in a crouching posture with nymph who is raising right arm; flower below. Reverse: no legend, Incuse square quartered with unclear symbol in one section. BMC p. 149, 1 (unknown city ..NAEI); Berlin II, 13 (Lete); cf Sear 1300. Extremely fine depiction of Satyr Kidnapping Nymph. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£2,250.00

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Macedonia 'Satyr Kidnapping Nymph' AR Stater 019570


Philip II (359 BC - 336 BC.)

Born in Pella, Philip was the youngest son of the king Amyntas III and Eurydice II. In his youth, Philip was a hostage in Thebes, the leading city of Greece during the Theban hegemony. While a captive there, Philip received a military and diplomatic education from Epaminondas. He became involved in a pederastic relationship with Pelopidas, and lived with Pammenes, who was an enthusiastic advocate of the Sacred Band of Thebes. In 364 BC Philip returned to Macedon. The deaths of his elder brothers, King Alexander II and Perdiccas III, allowed him to take the throne in 359 BC. His son Alexander The Great was born in 355 BC.

Philipp II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Unit 016390

Philipp II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Unit
Bronze, 6.54 grams, 18.38 mm. Uncertain mint in Macedonia. 359-336 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Apollo right bound in tainia. Reverse: FILIPPOU, youth on horseback right, ivy leaf on stalk below. Mueller 141; cf Sear 6696-6698. Good very fine.

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Philipp II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Unit 016390
Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Half-Unit 019661

Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Half-Unit
Bronze, 6.83 grams, 14.52 mm. Macedonia. 359-336 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of young male right, wearing broad diadem, corn-grain above the forehead. Reverse: FILIPPOU, naked youth on horseback prancing right; spear-head below. Muller XXV, 173; SNG Cop 603; SNGANS 850; Sear 6696ff. Good very fine.

£65.00

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Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' AE Half-Unit 019661
Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' Tetradrachm 019227

Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' Tetradrachm
Silver, 13.77 grams, 23.35 mm. Amphipolis. 323-315 BC. Obverse: no legend, laureate head of Zeus right. Reverse: FILIPPOU, youth on horseback right, holding palm; aplustre below horse; P dot under raised foreleg. SNG ANS 738ff; SNG Cop 559; cf Sear 6680-6684. Extremely fine.

£385.00

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Philip II 'Youth on Horseback' Tetradrachm 019227


Philip III (359 BC. – December 25, 317 BC.)

Philip III Arrhidaeus was king of Macedon from June 10, 323 BC until his death. He was a son of King Philip II of Macedon by Philinna of Larissa, allegedly a Thessalian dancer, and a half-brother of Alexander the Great. Named Arrhidaeus at birth, he assumed the name Philip when he ascended to the throne. In Plutarch's report, he became both physically and mentally disabled following a poisoning attempt by Philip II's wife, Queen Olympias, who wanted to eliminate a possible rival to her son Alexander. However, this may just be malicious gossip, and there is no evidence that Olympias really caused her stepson's condition. Alexander was very fond of him, and took him on his campaigns, both to protect his life and to ensure he would not be used as a pawn in a challenge for the throne. After Alexander's untimely death in Babylon, Arrhidaeus was proclaimed king by the Macedonian army in Asia. However, he was a mere figurehead, and a pawn of the powerful generals, one after the other. His reign and his life did not last long.

Philip III 'Horseman' AE18 018682

Scarce Philip III 'Horseman' AE18
Bronze, 4.24 grams, 17.95 mm. Macedonia. 323-317 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, in lionskin headdress. Reverse: no legend, rider, raising right hand, on horse galloping right (BA below?). Price 2; Sear -. (Not in Sear with Herakles obverse). Fine.

£16.00

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Philip III 'Horseman' AE18 018682
Philip III, King of Macedonia 'Zeus' Drachm 010063

Philip III, King of Macedonia 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, Drachm, 4.11 grams; 18.29 mm. Magnesia ad Maeandrum. 323-319 B.C. Obverse: Head of Herakles in lion-skin headdress to right. Reverse: FILIPPOU, Zeus, wearing himation, seated left on backless throne, holding eagle in his right hand and scepter in his left; to left, thrysus. Price P-51, Muller P82. Very fine/good fine.

£75.00

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Philip III, King of Macedonia 'Zeus' Drachm 010063


Alexander The Great (356 BC - 323 BC.)

Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon (Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon), King of Macedonia, was born in late July 356 BC in Pella, Macedonia. He was one of the greatest military genius in history. He conquered much of what was then the civilized world, driven by his divine ambitions of world conquest and the creation of a universal world monarchy.

Alexander III 'Club and Bowcase' AE19 016377

Alexander III 'Club and Bowcase' AE18
Bronze, 6.44 grams, 17.46 mm. Macedonian mint. 336-323 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, between bow and bowcase above and club; Delta above, trident. Price 280; SNG Cop. 1038; cf Sear 6739. Extremely fine.

£70.00

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Alexander III 'Club and Bowcase' AE19 016377
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019653

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.26 grams, 12.98 mm. 310-301 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre, torch beneath chair. Price 564A; Muller 27; SNG Fitz. 2196; cf Sear 6728ff. Extremely fine, struck with a partially clogged reverse die, but with original mint lustre. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£160.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019653
Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater 019364

Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater
Gold, 8.54 grams, 18.06 mm. Amphipolis. 330-320 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet, decorated with serpent. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Nike standing left holding wreath and stylis. Sear 6702. Extremely fine.

£2,250.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater 019364
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019649

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.14 grams, 12.19 mm. Sardes mint. 323-319 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. Long torch in left field, A beneath chair. Price 2637; SNG Cop 878; Muller 31; cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£135.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019649
Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater 019363

Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater
Gold, 8.83 grams, 17.83 mm. Amphipolis. 330-320 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Nike standing left holding wreath and stylis, unclear symbol at foot left. Sear 6702. About extremely fine.

£1,950.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Nike' Gold Stater 019363
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019643

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.16 grams, 13.11 mm. Lampsacus mint. 310-301 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, legs uncrossed, holding eagle and sceptre. Forepart of Pegasus left in left field; o on N monogram beneath throne. Price 1382; SNG Cop 887; cf Sear 6730-6731. Very fine.

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019643
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019646

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.23 grams, 14.28 mm. Kolophon mint. 319-310 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. monogram resembling S and sideways Omega to left, retrograde E and K monogram beneath chair. Price 1794; SNG Cop 917; cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£145.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019646
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus and Eagle' Tetradrachm 017116

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus and Eagle' Tetradrachm
Silver, 16.68 grams, 26.47 mm. Uncertain mint in Syria. 325-300 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Alexander as Herakles right wearing lionskin headdress. Reverse: ALEXANDROU (worn, to right), Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre, no visible field marks. Price 4004; cf Sear 6713ff. Good fine/fine.

£160.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus and Eagle' Tetradrachm 017116
Alexander III (The Great) 'Club and Bow' AE Unit 016414

Alexander III (The Great) 'Club and Bow' AE Unit
Bronze, 6.88 grams, 20.67 mm. Macedonia. 336-323 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Alexander as Herakles right, with lionskin head-dress. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, bow in case above club left; delta above, bunch of grapes. Price 283; Muller 1538; cf Sear 6739. Good very fine with a softer reverse.

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Club and Bow' AE Unit 016414
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019648

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.23 grams, 13.16 mm. Abydus mint. 310-301 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. MU monogram in left field, I beneath chair. Price 1528; SNG Cop 994; cf Sear 6728ff. Extremely fine with original mint lustre. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£195.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019648
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019651

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.04 grams, 14.61 mm. Kolophon mint. 310-301 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. Standing crescent in left field, retrograde P and K monogram beneath chair. Price 1827; Muller 273; cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine.

£135.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019651
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019650

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 3.94 grams, 14.24 mm. Kolophon mint. 323-319 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. Lyre in left field, B beneath chair. Price 1770; SNG Cop 964: Muller 242; cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine.

£120.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019650
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019647

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.16 grams, 12.99 mm. Kolophon mint. 310-301 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. Standing crescent above lion's head left in left field, N beneath chair. Price 1805; Muller 339; cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£130.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019647
Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019652

Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm
Silver, 4.14 grams, 13.53 mm. Before 310 BC. Obverse: no legend, head of Herakles right, wearing lionskin. Reverse: ALEXANDROU, Zeus seated left, one leg drawn back, holding eagle and sceptre. Monogram in left field (worn) kantharos (?) beneath chair. cf Sear 6728ff. Very fine.

£135.00

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Alexander III (The Great) 'Zeus' Drachm 019652


Lysimachos (323/2-281 BC)

Lysimachos was born around 360 BC to Thessalian Greek parents who had migrated to Macedonia. He served in the army of Philip II and was appointed to the select somatophylakes (royal bodyguards) under Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander he was given a satrapy consisting of Thrace and parts of north-western Asia Minor. He supported the various coalitions that included Seleukos, Ptolemy and Kassandros against the growing power of Antigonos Monophthalmos. Like the other major successor generals, he proclaimed himself king in 305/4 BC. He already acted as an independent dynast in Thrace where four years earlier he destroyed Kardia in the Thracian Chersonesos so that he could replace it with his own capital named Lysimacheia. Lysimachos was instrumental in the final destruction of Antigonos at the battle of Ipsos in 301 BC. It fell to him and his army to hold the Antigonid forces in Asia Minor until Seleukos could arrive from the east with his war elephants and deliver the coup de grace. Because of the great risks that he undertook Lysimachos received the majority of Antigonos' old possessions in Asia Minor. Despite some difficulties with native Thracian tribal chiefs (he was briefly held hostage by one in 292 BC) as well as an alliance of Skythian nomads and Greek cities, Lysimachos wrested the very throne of Macedonia from Demetrios Poliorketes in 285. Lysimachos was killed by the forces of Seleukoson in 281 BC .

Lysimachus 'Athena' Tetradrachm 018880

Lysimachus 'Athena' Tetradrachm
Silver, 14.61 grams, 27.46 mm. Uncertain mint in Macedonia. 205-195 BC. Obverse: no legend, diademed head of Alexander III right, wearing horn of Ammon. Reverse: BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena seated left holding Nike and transverse spear, her left arm resting on shield, HP monogram in left field, strigil (?) beneath seat. Mueller 356; cf Sear 6816. Good very fine. A significant coin which has been published on wildwinds.com

£350.00

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Lysimachus 'Athena' Tetradrachm 018880
Lysimachos 'Athena' AR Tetradrachm 015452

Lysimachos 'Athena' AR Tetradrachm
Silver, 16.44 grams, 28.15 mm. 294-287 BC. Obverse: no legend, diademed head of Alexander III right, wearing horn of Ammon. Reverse: BASILEWS LUSIMACOU, Athena seated left, holding Nike bearing wreath, monogram above. Sear 6814-16. Good fine-very fine.

£195.00

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Lysimachos 'Athena' AR Tetradrachm 015452


History of The Macedonian Kingdom

Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Macedonians began to expand into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Pieria, Mygdonia, and Almopia. Near the modern city of Veria, King Perdiccas I (or, more likely, his son, Argaeus I) built his capital, Aigai (modern Vergina). After a brief period of Persian overlordship under Darius Hystaspes, the state regained its independence under King Alexander I (495–450 BC). Prior to the 4th century BC, the kingdom covered a region approximately corresponding to the province of Macedonia in modern Greece. It became increasingly Hellenized during this period, though prominent Greeks appear to have regarded the Macedonians as uncouth. A unified Macedonian state was eventually established by King Amyntas III (c. 393–370 BC ), though it still retained strong contrasts between the cattle-rich coastal plain and the fierce isolated tribal hinterland, allied to the king by marriage ties. They controlled the passes through which barbarian invasions came from Illyria to the north and north-west. Amyntas had three sons; the first two, Alexander II and Perdiccas III reigned only briefly. Perdiccas III's infant heir was deposed by Amyntas' third son, Philip II of Macedon, who made himself king and ushered in a period of Macedonian dominance of Greece. Philip's son Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) managed to briefly extend Macedonian power not only over the central Greek city-states, but also to the Persian empire, including Egypt and lands as far east as the fringes of India. Alexander's adoption of the styles of government of the conquered territories was accompanied by the spread of Greek culture and learning through his vast empire. Although the empire fractured into multiple Hellenic regimes shortly after his death, his conquests left a lasting legacy, not least in the new Greek-speaking cities founded across Persia's western territories, heralding the Hellenistic period.



Greek Coin Book and Other References:

Mionnet = Mionnet, Theodore Edme Description De Medailles Antiques, Grecques Et Romaines
Imhoof = Imhoof-Blumer, von F    Kleinasiatische Münzen
RecGen = Waddington, William Henry    Recueil General des Monnaies Greques d'Asie Mineure
BMC = British Museum Catalogues
SNG = Volumes of the worldwide SNG project    Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum,
Moushmov = Moushmov, Nikola    Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula
SGI = Sear, David R    Greek Imperial Coins & Their Values
RPC = Reinach & Hill    Roman Provincial Coinage
GIC = Varbanov, Ian    Greek Imperial Coins
MacDonald = University of Glasgow    Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection
WW = Wildwinds.com (reference & attribution site)



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